If you still think Ben Roethlisberger got off easy, if you still think he hasn't suffered enough for the incident last March in which a 20-year-old college student accused him of rape in the bathroom of a seedy Georgia bar, know that he's not having an easy time of it today.
That's because the veteran Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback has to endure the annual circus known as Super Bowl Media Day, during which he'll be grilled unmercifully about the entire tawdry episode.
I've covered seven Super Bowls, and Media Day is always the absolute worst day of the week for sportswriters, who are forced to jostle elbow-to-elbow with hundreds of pseudo-journalists, costumed freaks and spotlight-seeking ex-jocks with microphones asking stupid questions.
For athletes embroiled in scandal -- see Ray Lewis during Super Bowl XXXV in Tampa -- the glare of the spotlight can be withering -- and over-whelming.
You can bet the Steelers PR staff has already coached up Big Ben as to what to expect today. And you can pretty much bet Roethlisberger will stick to the most scripted, banal answers he can muster when the media starts its probing.
Over and over, when he's asked about the events of that March night, he'll say the only thing he's thinking of is Sunday's big game against the Green Bay Packers.
And when he's asked how that incident and the subsequent four-game suspension handed down by the NFL affected him and his teammates -- and whether he's changed as a result -- he'll say over and over that this is no time for reflection, it's time to get ready for the Packers.
No matter what he says, it'll be a grueling day for the big guy -- the emotional equivalent of that Haloti Ngata forearm blow that broke his nose.
Only this pain might be even worse.
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